On July 6-7, 2015 Moscow hosted the first meeting of representatives of financing organizations of BRICS member states in the sphere of science and technology. The event, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, was attended by representatives of five BRICS member states. The goal of the meeting was to increase cooperation and achieve concrete results in the sphere of science, technology and innovations among BRICS member states.

One of the topics was the establishment of joint BRICS Research and Innovation Networking Platforms, which will help coordinate an elaborate cooperation process within the BRICS scientific community and attract science-intensive industrial enterprises to these activities.

In this discussion, Director of the RF Centre of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) S.Korotkov told about a platform for a TT network between BRICS countries, launched under the UNIDO project “Partnership between Russia and Brazil in technology and innovation for development of SMEs” (see more at: http://brics-ttn.org). One of the project partners from the Russian side is the Russian Technology Transfer Network, whose methodology and best practices are planned to be used for extension of this network to other BRICS countries.